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...that you can effect good policy developments, you need to hear [people’s] voices. I do that in a number of ways. I go to them where I find them in visiting the schools, the supermarkets and the coffee shops, as well as going to the churches. It’s really been about engaging people, putting together groups that represent those communities, talking with them so that they’re my eyes and ears into the community. Then I take that and talk to the council to say what policies or practices we do put into...
...deprive them of a chance to show that they could do better than they had done under the traditional system,” Kagan wrote in the e-mail. While a majority of second-year students said that they would have preferred that the new grading scheme go into effect immediately, so that they would have two years to take advantage of its benefits, Kagan wrote that a “substantial minority” raised concerns about applying the new system to their class at all. As a result, the Law School decided to pursue...
...Aesthetics are the foundation for the rest of year. They have such a strong effect on one’s goals, emotions, even motivation,” he says. “It’s easier to pursue your goals in aesthetically pleasing surroundings...
...dining halls (The Harvard Crimson, “Calorie Cards Removed From Dining Halls” Sept. 24, 2008). A committee that included representatives from all three of our organizations and HUDS was asked to consider how nutritional information was displayed in the dining hall and the effect that it might have on students with disordered eating. A decision was made to remove nutritional information from the serving area while leaving it available on kiosks in the dining hall. This group agreed that this change, given the availability of nutrition information on the dining hall kiosks, was in the best...
...nation forfeits its right to sovereignty if it unleashes or is unable to prevent massive human-rights abuses on its soil. R2P was born from the collective shame over global inaction during atrocities in places such as Cambodia, Rwanda and Srebrenica. The most striking current example of R2P in effect is in Darfur, where the U.N. has agreed to deploy 26,000 peacekeepers to end genocide. It is a mission that, if fully staffed, would supercede that in the D.R.C. as the biggest in the world. "The concept is focused on mass atrocity crimes," says Gareth Evans, who heads global...